The Human Rights Center “Viasna”

02.12.2014 Salihorsk joins “Cities for Life – Cities Against Death Penalty” action

Salihorsk human rights activist have joined the annual action “Cities for Life – Cities Against Death Penalty”, held by the Catholic community of Sant'Egidio.

02.12.2014 Vitsebsk: more fines for photos with “birds and cages”

Trials of participants of a photo shoot with a graffiti, painted by an unknown artist, continue at the Chyhunachny district court of Vitsebsk. The graffiti depicts newspaper birds flying out of cages. The police qualified the photoshoot as "unauthorized picketing".

02.12.2014 Maladzechna residents oppose construction of large pigstries

November 29 in Maladzechna local human rights activists held a meeting of the lawyer of the association “Green Network” Tatsiana Sinitsa with opponents of building two huge pigstries on the territory of Maladzechna district.

01.12.2014 Bialynichy activists join “Cities for Life” campaign

Civil society activists distributed the book “Who Needs Death Penalty?” by Valery Filipau. The action was timed to the joint action "Cities for Life - Cities Against the Death Penalty", which is held on November 30 in many countries.

01.12.2014 Yury Belenki to be tried once more December 3

Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Christian Party “Belarusian Popular Front Yury Belenky to stand trial for the third time. December 3 at 11 a.m., Minsk City Court will consider an administrative case for violation of the order of conduct of a mass event, the rally in Kurapaty on Forefathers' Day, November 2.

01.12.2014 Kanstantsin Mardzvintsau and Tatsiana Seviarynets got fined as well

On December 1, two more people photographed on November 5 in Vitsebk were fined under charges of violating the procedure of holding mass events.

01.12.2014 UN Human Rights Committee deplores Belarus execution

The United Nations Human Rights Committee is gravely concerned that Belarus has executed a person whose complaint was under consideration by the Committee. The Committee was informed that the death sentence against Aliaksandr Hrunou was carried out on 22 October 2014. Mr. Hrunou had been found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by the Homel Regional Court in December 2013.

01.12.2014 Independent journalist Andrei Mialeshka to be tried December 2

December 2, Hrodna journalist Andrei Mialeshka will be tried once again for cooperation with the independent media without accreditation. November 29, he received a subpoena by registered mail. The hearing will take place at the Leninski District Court of Hrodna.

01.12.2014 Political prisoner Eduard Lobau marks 26th birthday

Eduard Lobau was born in Vilnius on December 1, 1988.

30.11.2014 Independent journalist Tamara Shchapiotkina faces administrative charges

The administrative offense report written by the deputy chief of department of protection of public order of the Biaroza district police department Mikalai Prakurat says that Tamara Shchapiotkina violated Art. 22.9 of the Administrative Code.

30.11.2014 CCP BPF deputy chair fined over memorial rally

On November 28, the Leninski District Court of Minsk considered the administrative case of the deputy chairman of the Conservative Christian Party BPF Yury Belenki and sentenced him to a fine of 4.5 million rubles for involvement in a procession to the place of execution of the victims of the Bolshevik terror that took place on November 9.

30.11.2014 Expulsion of Alena Tankachova delayed for one month

The Pershamaiski District Police Department of Minsk has extended by one month the residence registration for human rights defender Alena Tankachova, leader of the Center for Legal Transformation “Lawtrend”, according to Radio Liberty’s Belarus service.

28.11.2014 Free Speech Photo Ends with Fines for an Unsanctioned Action

Today three participants of the photo session in Vitebsk were fined for holding an unauthorized mass event.

28.11.2014 Ales Bialiatski: Our strength is in fearlessness and solidarity

Ales Bialiatski, head of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” and Vice President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), is taking part in the 2nd World Human Rights Forum, which opened in Marrakesh (Morocco) on November 27.

28.11.2014 Army’s no bowl of cherries?

Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Center “Viasna” Valiantsin Stefanovich has commented on certain provisions of the draft law on alternative service, which was adopted in first reading by the House of Representatives of the National Assembly on November 10.